Missing Mrs. Lowry: The Billionaire’s Wakeup Call

Chapter 104

The office was a quiet sanctuary. Alton’s slender, gold–watch adorned wrist extended and handed over a platinum business card bearing his private number.

Megan accepted it gently. After a long, searching look, she asked softly, “Why help me? I thought you’d side with Sullivan.”

Alton didn’t respond, instead leaning back in his chair and taking a contemplative draw from his cigar.

Truth be told, he didn’t know why as well. But if pressed for an answer, it might have been the memory from the hospital when he saw the shocking lines etched into Megan’s wrists, a painful echo of his own mother’s scars.

The difference, though, was stark. His mother had longed for death, and so she left.

Megan, on the other hand, clung to life.

Maybe it was something that lit up a spark of his compassion, he thought.

As Megan left, the business card was almost soaked with the sweat of her clenched palm.

Returning to Sullivan’s side, she was the picture of success to the world, but behind closed doors, it was a different story. Yet she rarely allowed herself to entertain thoughts of leaving Sullivan. She didn’t dare. But now, amid the despair, a sliver of hope seemed to beckon.

She stepped out of the elevator at the lobby.

revolving doors, to her surprise, she saw Begonia. Separated by a pane of

one

was there for. She actually knew his affection for her,

was Sullivan’s wife, but because… it was too late.

confessed his feelings, and she never

on, light and shadow playing across their faces.

have at least called out to Begonia openly, could have visited his mother Cynthia to bake apple

had other

to save her, while she,

of the law firm, a

she looked at another man. Her eyes betrayed a clear sense of loss and regret, which stabbed his heart

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wife harbored feelings for

nature of those feelings, they were there, and

looked at him with that